New technology to join steel and aluminum with world's first application to the door panel of mass production vehicles
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - 09:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Honda Motor Co., Ltd. today announced that it has newly developed a technology to join steel and aluminum and applied it to enable adoption of aluminum for an outer door panel, which has conventionally been made of steel. Honda will adopt this technology first to the North American version of the all-new Acura RLX, which will go on sale in the United States in March 2013, and will expand application sequentially to other models.